Two women and two men entered a cafeteria and each pulled a ticket (There's a illustration, but I can't post it here... It's a rectangle with numbers from 5-100 that go by 5 cents, 10 cents, 15 cents...etc)
Anyway...

1. The four ordered the same food and had he same numeral punched out on their ticket (the retangle is the ticket).

2. Each of the four had exactly four coins.

3. The two women had the same amount of money in coins, though no denomination (value) of coin was held by both women; the two men had the same amount of money in coins, though no denominationof coin was held by both men.

4. Each of the four paid the exact amount inndicated by the numberal that was punched out on his or her ticket.

Which numeral was punched out on each ticket? NOTE: "Coins" may be pennies (1 cent), nickles (5 cents), dimes (10 cents), quarters (25 cents), half dollar (50 cents) or silver dollar.

(In reply to Popping Balloons (see note at end) by TomM)

Don't mean to be picky but I think you left out the silver dollar. I haven't gone through it myself. But one possible combination including the silver dollar is 1 silver dollar, 2 dimes, 1 nickel and 3 quarters and 1 half dollar. It's possible that the price is 25 cents, although I highly doubt it.

My personal opinion is that you probably have the right answer already. I feel like I'm so picky for pointing something out that's not even the answer.

Posted by np_rt on 2002-12-27 21:37:48